I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
ANNE LAMOTTOne thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline. But also every single day a kid needs a break.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.
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Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.
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No is a complete sentence.
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The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
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I’m not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I’m not going to carry that in my backpack.
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I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it’s over, it’s over.
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I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there’s something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.
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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
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I didn’t need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
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